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Special issue : frontiers of research on financial globalization

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor) - 2009

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Financial globalization : a reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - In: IMF staff papers 56 (2009) 1, pp. 8-62

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IMF programs and growth: is optimism defensible?

Baqir, Reza; Ramcharan, Rodney; Sahay, Ratna - In: IMF staff papers 52 (2005) 2, pp. 260-286

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Financial integration and macroeconomic volatility

Kose, M. Ayhan - In: IMF staff papers 50 (2003) Special issue, pp. 119-142

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Financial Institutions and Markets across Countries and over Time : Data and Analysis

Beck, Thorsten; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper introduces the updated and expanded version of the Financial Development and Structure Database and presents recent trends in structure and development of financial institutions and markets across countries. The authors add indicators on banking structure and financial globalization....

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Finance, Financial Sector Policies, and Long-Run Growth

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012

The first part of this paper reviews the literature on the relation between finance and growth. The second part of the paper reviews the literature on the historical and policy determinants of financial development. Governments play a central role in shaping the operation of financial systems...

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Bank Regulations Are Changing : For Better or Worse?

Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard, Jr.; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily reformed their bank regulations for the better over the last decade. Following Basel guidelines many...

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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation

Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

By documenting the evolution of Tobin's q before, during, and after firms internationalize, the authors provide evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, they find that...

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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc - 2012

The authors examine whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. They define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...

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Law and Firms' Access to Finance

Beck, Thorsten; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013

external finance than firms in common law countries. Next, their results indicate that French legal origin countries tend to … have (1) less adaptable legal systems, as defined by the degree to which case law and principles of equity rather than … simply statutory law are accepted foundations of legal decisions, and (2) less politically independent judiciaries, as …

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